Employee Engagement Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old employee engagement quotes, employee engagement sayings, and employee engagement proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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Paychecks can't buy passion.

Brad Federman

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Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy."

Warren Buffett

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Employees engage with employers and brands when they're treated as humans worthy of respect.

Meghan Biro

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Create caring and robust connections between every employee and their work, customers, leaders, managers, and the organization to achieve results that matter to everyone in this sentence.

David Zinger

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The value of a business is a function of how well the financial capital and the intellectual capital are managed by the human capital. You'd better get the human capital part right.

Dave Bookbinder

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

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People want to know they matter and they want to be treated as people. That's the new talent contract.

Pamela Stroko

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An engaged employee understands what to do to help her company succeed, she feels emotionally connected to the organization and its leaders, and she is willing to put that knowledge and emotion into action to improve performance, her own and the organization's.

Julie Gebauer & Don Lowman

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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Sam Walton

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Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole.

Tracy Streckenbach

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Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.

Ian Hutchinson

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Brand is how others see you, culture is how you see yourself.

Curt Coffman

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It is never an idea, technology, market forces, or access to capital that makes a company innovative. What differentiates an innovative company from an average company is the people working inside the company.

Jag Randhawa

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The way your employees feel is the way your customers will feel. And if your employees don't feel valued, neither will your customers.

Sybil F. Stershic

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You can't sell it outside if you can't sell it inside.

Stan Slap

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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

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Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

Ian Hutchinson

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It's impossible to win the hearts and minds of people unless you clearly establish goals and values and reward people if they act in a way that leads to the fulfilment of those objectives.

F. Robert Salerno

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our work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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There are many ways to motivate people to do things, but loyalty comes from the ability to inspire people.

Simon Sinek

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This is a no-brainer: Every leader, every CEO wants engaged employees. After all, an engaged employee is a happy employee, and happy employees produce.

Jeff Boss

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person â€“ not just an employee â€“ are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

Anne Mulcahy

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There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow. It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Jack Welch

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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Sam Walton

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It is equally important to know if we have a happy and engaged workforce as it is to have a profitable bottom line.

Vern Dosch

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When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.

Betty Bender

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Employee engagement is the art and science of engaging people in authentic and recognized connections to strategy, roles, performance, organization, community, relationship, customers, development, energy, and happiness to leverage, sustain, and transform work into results.

David Zinger

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On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

Marilyn Carlson

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Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Stephen R. Covey

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When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

Simon Sinek

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Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

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Employee engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals.

Kevin Kruse

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When a person is engaged, dedication to their craft, desire to achieve, and relentless commitment to make a difference is palpable. You can see it, hear it, and feel itâ€¦and it is contagious!

Kevin E. Phillips

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Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

Scott Blanchard

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It's about getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment & helping to find a way to innovate.

To build a culture of engagement it is important to incorporate training on intrinsic motivation and employee engagement into management development programs.

Kenneth Thomas

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Engaged employees are in the game for the sake of the game, they believe in the cause of the organization.

Paul Marciano

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Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

Zig Ziglar

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A group of people get together and exist as an institution we call a company so they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately â€“ they make a contribution to society, a phrase which sounds trite but is fundamental.

David Packard

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People leave when they don't feel appreciated. That's why we've made recognition a really high value. Our business is people-capability first; then you satisfy customers; then you make money.

David Novak

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Average companies give their people something to work on. In contrast, the most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.

Simon Sinek

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You can't inspire and lead people without earning their attention. You achieve that in a counter-intuitive way â€“ by paying close attention to what interests them.

Phil Dourado

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Engaged employees stay for what they give (they like their work); disengaged employees stay for what they get (favorable job conditions, growth opportunities, job security).

Blessing White

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To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

Doug Conant

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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Tom Peters

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If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.

Simon Sinek

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